Ttim:
Try as I might, I can't get any of the keyboard shortcuts to work that I program into the "keyboard shortcuts" preferences Gnome GUI tool.
For example, I've tried the following, ineffectually:
Launch help browser <Shift><Control>w (original setting, but does nothing) E-mail 0xec (does nothing) Take screenshot <Shift>Print (this works) Run a terminal 0xeb (does nothing)
Richard E Miles:
I tried some of the commands you mentioned with keyboard shortcuts and they work for me. Of course these only work for the keyboard activities that are available in the menu.
By menu, do you mean the options in that configuration program? Such as some of the ones I listed.
Desktop: log out, sleep, search, e-mail, launch web browser, run a terminal, all do nothing. None of the sound category items do anything.
I notice that some of these entries don't seem to have a corresponding entry in the gconf-editor mentioned below.
You click on the entry, then enter the key combination you want, and it works. This is for the keyboard shortcuts from the Desktop preferences keyboard selection.
Not for me... :-( Only a few of them work.
If you want to use your own activity for example a keyboard shortcut for the eject command you have to select from the applications system tools configuration editor gui application. Select apps metacity global_keybindings to enter the shortcut then from the keyboard-commands selection enter the actual command to launch (ie eject).
Do you mean "keybinding_commands" rather than keyboard-commands? That was the other thing I tried. For instance:
gconf-editor 2.10.0: ... gthumb metacity general global_keybindings run_command_2 F7 keybinding_commands command_2 xmms window_keybindings workspace_names mini-commander ...
That appears to work. Though still doesn't help me with one or two useful buttons on this keyboard (e.g. un/mute the sound, volume up/down).